Marked Unknown

A few days ago, I was out riding 4 wheelers with a friend. We had ridden from Toquereville to Silver Reef. Not the town but further south. On the way we passed by an old Catholic cemetery and decided to stop. There was a graveyard with only about 20 graves that you could see and out of that 20, at least 15 were marked only as unknown. It was very sad to walk through or to stand and look at the markers. I thought to myself that at one time someone had to have known who these people were and that they had people who cared about them. Tears filled my eyes as I thought to myself how lucky our family is to at least know where Aaron is because he could so easily have been in a grave very much like one of these. These graves will probably always be marked unknown but to at least one person they will not be forgotten again.

If you get the chance to go there take the time it is worth it. There is also a Presbyterian Cemetery close by and this area is just filled to overflowing with history from the turn of the century.